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gooshy1 writes "Ok it's getting near the end of the year and people are beginning to wind down for the holidays. What I want to know is are there any decent multiplayer games that an office of about 4-7 can play, preferably action. The machines that we use are not all that great, P4 1.7Ghz with 2 year old NVidia graphics cards, so Quake and the likes are out of the question. A favorite is BZFlag due to its playability and nice tunable graphics. All thoughts welcome, and Merry Chistmas/Happy Holidays :-)"
Where have we come as a nation, as culture when a P4 1.7Ghz is classified as a "not all that great" machine.
No, you missed it. He secretly works for a game developer, and is in the process of trying out the Quake 4 beta in his spare time, which takes a hell of a machine. Doom 3, beware!
There's a difference between "getting the program to run", and "running with an acceptable 90fps framerate". I think that all of us hardcore gamers can agree that anything below 50-60fps isn't even worth touching.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Heh. Quake (1 & 2) even run on a PocketPC!
Heh, I never realized my iPAQ was faster than P4 1.7Ghz,... heh. No wonder I still use a P1, these things just keep getting slower and slower...
"If anything can go wrong, it will." - Murphy
With such low end systems, you'd better stick with MUDs.
If my _great_ P2 450MHz machine with 128MB RAM and an Nividia TNT2 with 16 MB of VRAM can play Counterstrike via Wine, I'm really not sure what to recommend for your "not that great" machines...
You must have meant .17 Ghz because otherwise your system will play just about any game on the market.
So if this is the case fire up a good old game of Hearts. I've played it over the network on a P133. With all the eye-candy turned on and full resolution.
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in a really cool office. If you want something that works on a "puny" P4 with a "measly" 1.7 ghz...will "Hearts" work ok?
What?
Oh yeah?? Well I play Quake3 and Doom III on a 32mhz pentium with 4mb of RAM and no video card and no monitor and 32mb of hard drive space!
The next comment I write will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and see it early!
I ran it on my ZX-81.
You forgot the part about two feet of snow, with a headwind, and you were grateful.
Karma: Frotzed (mostly due to the Frobozz Magic Karma Company)
Let's play Global Thermal Nuclear War.
paintball
No, you missed it. He secretly works for SCO as a software developer and is in the process of putting some SCO Intellectual Property code into the most popular Linux games. He gets a commision for every lawsuit SCO initiates, with the end result raising the share price.
SCO's business plan doesn't involve software development (in fact there is only one full time programmer, and two part time programmers). It involves 20 lawyers making false claims.
A Pentium 4? 2 year old video card? You poor soul!
I'm stuck with a 5 year old computer:
* Pentium 3/450 MHz
* 576 MB RAM
* Diamond Viper V550 (TNT) PCI 16 MB
Plus a 32 MB AGB TNT2 card purchased 2 months ago. If my other half didn't have a shoe fettish or jewellery obsession, I would be running with more clicks.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, from the nerds in Melbourne.
Mike
shedding some of those extra pounds and starting a table tennis tournament...
if you have a table, of course
100% Insightful
quake runs on pentium ONE machines, what are you on?
Windows?
I'm stuck with a 5 year old computer:
* Pentium 3/450 MHz
* 576 MB RAM
* Diamond Viper V550 (TNT) PCI 16 MB
Plus a 32 MB AGB TNT2 card purchased 2 months ago. If my other half didn't have a shoe fettish or jewellery obsession, I would be running with more clicks. Beat this -- I'm connecting to slashdot via Bongo drum. Beat that! So there! HA!
Stop the Slashdot effect! Don't read the articles!
Fucking rich? Cool, I like being here.
A P4 can look like real shit if it's got a 100MHz FSB and sdram to match it. In that case, an Athlon 1600 with DDR can run circles around it. When top of the line is 800MHz FSB the 100s are over anyway.
That being said, Quake 2 is playable on a 650MHz slot 1 with crummy old pc133 sdram. Playable, but "not that great"
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
I no longer wonder why they are shipping jobs to India.
my girlfriend is an avid gamer and for her birthday i bought her a 256 mb video card. So, it has dual 400 mhz processor and 256 mb of ram. This is more than the 700 mhz w/ 128 mb of ram on my main computer!! *sigh* It's a good thing I love her...
This is my digital signature. 10011011001
128 mb of ram on my main computer
That's bigger than my hard drive, you insensitive clod!!
Damn his wife's insensitive clogs!
my girlfriend is an avid gamer...
;)
Oh yeah, I totally fucking feel your pain, you bastard.
The enemies of Democracy are
So instead of sex you can play counter-strike?
Man, you're a true geek.
... and you played multiplayer using yourself as a human modem, carrying the ones and zeroes to your ISP by hand, upstream both ways!